The garden of Eden and the flood . fresh-water lakes, and that large num-bers of land animals perished there during the the occurrence of the Noachian flood this charnel-house invited to the spot all sorts of predatory marineanimals, and the sudden fall of the water left the seamonsters to perish in the basin with the remains of theland animals. There is a difficulty in the theory, as thecountry abounds in salt licks and water courses far upfrom the seacoast to the mountains, so that animalsneed not resort to these beds for a supply of salt or wa-ter. Besides, the remains of land anima
The garden of Eden and the flood . fresh-water lakes, and that large num-bers of land animals perished there during the the occurrence of the Noachian flood this charnel-house invited to the spot all sorts of predatory marineanimals, and the sudden fall of the water left the seamonsters to perish in the basin with the remains of theland animals. There is a difficulty in the theory, as thecountry abounds in salt licks and water courses far upfrom the seacoast to the mountains, so that animalsneed not resort to these beds for a supply of salt or wa-ter. Besides, the remains of land animals that neverherd together and have no sympathy for each otherare found side by side in this vast cemetery, as ifdriven together by some external terror. It is to behoped that a scientific ethnological investigation willinterpret this valley of dry bones, and throw lightupon the chronology of the human race. With much respect, yours, John T. Wightman,Pastor of Mount Vernon Place Methodist Episcopal Church, South,Washington, D. VII. Fossil Contents of the Ashley Beds. The following fossils, with phosphate nod-ules and bowlders, from the beds of the Ash-ley, were on exhibition in the South CarolinaDepartment of the New Orleans Expositionof 1884, from the collection of Major , of Charleston: Phosphate Nodules. Heads of Crocodilians. Phosphate Bowlders. Teeth of Crocodilians. Stratified Phosphate Rock. Ribs of Crocodilians. Teeth of the Elephant. Jawbone of Deer. Bones of the Elephant. Jawbone of Deer, with Tail Bones of the Elephant. Teeth. Ear Bones of the Elephant. Horns of Deer. Tusk of the Elephant. Coprolites of the Ichthyo- Teeth of the Mastodon. saurus. Vertebrae of the Mastodon. Ribs of Cetacean. Bones of the Mastodon. Jaws of Cetacean. Skull of the Whale. Skull of Cetacean. Ear Bones of the Whale. Fossil Shrimp. Teeth of the Whale. Jaws of Alligator. Ribs of Manatus. Jaws of Alligator, with Bones of Manatus. Teeth. Skull of Manatus. Ribs of Alligator. (6.) 62
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